Twine-stand



ITE) STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NOAH C. BYRAM, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TWINE-STAND.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 5,038, dated March 27, 1847.

To all whom, t may concern:

Be it known that I, NOAH C. BYRAM, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful ImprovementV in Bobbin- Stands, Such as are in Use in Stores, Counting-Rooms, and Various other Places; and I do hereby declare that the same is` fully described and represented in the following specification and accompanying drawings, letters, figures. and references thereof.

0f said drawings, Figure 1 denotes an external or side elevation of one of my improved bobbin stands, having a bobbin filled with twine applied to it. Fig. 2 is a vertical central and transverse section of it.

Said stand is compo-sed of a base A made of metal or other proper material and a round rod or axis B inserted and fixed in the central part of saidbase and being made with a shoulder (a) formed upon its upper end. and a screw above said shoulder as seen in F 2. A circular' cap piece l) having a hole bored through its center is placed upon the rod B so as to rest upon the shoulder (a) and have the screw of the rod projecting above its upper surface as seen in Fig. 2. The cap piece is confined down upon the shoulder by a nut C or a conical or other proper shaped piece of wood D' secured upon the screw of the rod..

E denotes the bobbin or reel placed upon the round rod B, and resting upon the sur` face of the base A, and kept in position upon the rod by the cap piece I).

The above with certain exceptions hereinafter to be described may be said to constitute the bobbin stand in common use.v

The twine on the bobbin is unreeled by simply pulling upon lit so as to cause the bobbin to rotate upon its rod B.

My improvement in said stand consists in passing between the lower surface of the lower head of the bobbin and the upper surface of the base A or between the upper surface of the upper head of the bobbin andy the lower surface of the cap piece as it very often does in the ordinary bobbin stand and by so doing either' becomes entangled or wedged between the surfaces in apposition as to render it nearly if not entirely impossible to rotate the bobbin until the cause of the ditlicultv is removed.

I claim therefore- The lin or flanch as applied to or combined with either the base or cap piece and arranged with respect to the bobbin in the manner and for the purpose as above speci- In testimony whereof I vhave hereto set i my signature this eighth day of December NOAH C. BYRAM. Vitnesses:

R. H. EDDY,

W. II. LEIGHTON. i

vent the twine on the bobbin from either 

